On Monday, October 01, 2007 10:34:37 AM -0600 Danny McPherson <danny@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Note that in real deployments just this behavior has broken things on occasion, as many firewall and other such policy application points assume things like DNS resolution will only be UDP/53 transactions.
Yeah; I'm getting a little tired of having our protocols redefined based on the incorrect assumptions of people who don't understand them. The DNS sometimes uses TCP, UDP flows can last more than one round trip, and ICMP unreachable messages are an essential part of IP; vendors and operators who assume otherwise should be made to fix their assumptions, instead of everyone else having to cripple their applications and networks to make the assumptions true.
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